Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.Ismail Serageldin, Ph.D.Gilbert Omenn, M.D., Ph.D.Vint Cerf, Ph.D.Faina Linkov, Ph.D.Eugene Shubnikov, M.D.Mita Lovalekar, M.D.Nicolas Padilla, M.D.Ali Ardalan, M.D.

Prevention ScienceSupercourse

Prototype for a Scientific Supercourse

Free Library of shared Books

Free Library of shared PowerPoint lectures

Supercourse Launch, Sept. 1997

1997 Problems in GlobalHealth and Epidemiology

WHO DIAMOND Project

155 Centers

70 Countries

7.2% of Children

Problem 1: Journals on diabetes > 10 yrs in developing countries

ScientificResearch

Teaching/Mentoring

Large Multidisciplinary Network

Open SourcePowerPoint Lecture

Library

Distribution System to EducatorsContinuous Quality Improvement

• Connect Everyone in Global Health

• Language of Science

• Teacher Resource

• Global course

• Library of Lectures

• Mirroring

• Connect Everyone in Global Health

• Language of Science

• Teacher Resource

• Global course

• Library of Lectures

• Mirroring

Global Health Network

To Network Everyone in Public Health in the World to share our

knowledge of prevention

MI

Pittsburgh Alexandriay

Germany

SerageldinLaPorte

Kunhardt

Sudan

Omenn

LinnLinn

IsraelIsrael

• Connect Everyone in Global Health

• Language of Science

• Teacher Resource

• Global course

• Library of Lectures

• Mirroring

What is the new global language of teaching?

ChalkboardPresentation

Power ofPowerPoint

Pretty, Lively, Sounded Presentations

Dust to Dust

Linus Pauling Lecture

Dust to Dust

Linus Pauling Lecture

Pauling’s PowerPoint Lecture on the Web

PowerPoint on the WebGrowth

2000 30,000

2008 7,800,000

• 7.6 million lectures already on the web•Almost anyone with a computer world wide has access to PP• >95% of presentations use PowerPoint, <2% open source

• Connect Everyone in Global Health

• Language of Science

• Teacher Resource

• Global course

• Library of Lectures

• Mirroring

Empowering Educators world wide with state of the art lecture content

First Class Taught95 pages17 seconds“Flop Sweat”

Supercourse HelpingFirst-time Teacher

How can we improve science education worldwide?

Question:

Answer:

Get better lectures

Why don’t scientists share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free?

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson

Mandela

• Connect Everyone in Global Health

• Language of Science

• Teacher Resource

• Global course

• Library of Lectures

• Mirroring

44,000 Faculty3500 Universities

174 Countries

M. Omenn

Continuous Viral Recruiting by Network

Supercourse Mirror Sites

42 Mirrored Sites,MOH Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia, Russia

East-West Collaboration

140 Chinese Medical Students

www.supercourse.cn

Indian Supercourse Network

6,735 faculty members

More than 200 lectures on topics of interest to teachers of Public Health in India

Mita Lovalekar, MBBS,MPH is the coordinatorof the Indian

Supercourse Network.

• Connect Everyone in Global Health

• Language of Science

• Teacher Resource

• Global course

• Library of Lectures

• Mirroring

Lectures

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1000

2000

3000

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

DevelopingCountries Lectures

A Two-way Street

How many students saw your best lecture last year?

Ali Aldadan, M.D.Tehren University

120 countries400,000 students

Teaching a Million

Can we teach 1,000,000 people world wide with a single prevention lecture?

Legacy Lectures: James Van Allen

Access to 100,000-1,000,000

1000 Lectures

Sent to 10,000 prevention experts

in 139 Countries

75 million hits/year

125 publications (including Science, BMJ, Lancet, Nature, Nature Med)

Top 11 MedicalPages Lancet

Top 100PC Magazine

Prevention lectures 1 and 2/ 532,000Global Health lecture 1 and 2/ 4,750,000Lecture 4 / 51,800,000

What are we capturing now and what do we want to capture in the future?

Science Prevention

Science 25 January 2008 Vol 319

Timeto

Classroom

24-36 months

Traditional ModelTranslating Research toClass Room

Science 25 January 2008 Vol 319

24-36 hours

Supercourse ModelTranslating Research toClass Room

ScientificResearch

Teaching/Mentoring

Ala Ardaldin IranSunita Dodani US/PakistanJesse Hung ChinaRonald LaPorte USMita Lovalekar US/IndiaFaina Linkov US/UkraineNicholas Padilla MexicoRania Saad EgyptFrancois Sauer USEugene Shubnikov Russia

AlaSoni

JesseRon

FainaMita

NicholasRania

Francois Eugene

“The Idea is Everything”

Victor Hugo, 1893

“The Idea is a Scientific Supercourse”

•Securing Stable Funding•Establishment of Advanced concepts for web quality control•Strategic plan for other Disciplines

Launch of the BA Scientific Supercourse

www.pitt.edu/~super1/